Harvard Quotes - Page 11

• I've never been to Harvard, I've never been to college, so I don't know what dorm life is like.

  David Fincher

  College, Life Is Like, Dorms

  "Exclusive: David Fincher Talks ‘Social Network’, ‘Zodiac’, His Filmmaking Process, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 30, 2010.

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• My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

  Bobby Scott

  Kings, Children, School

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• Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.

  Al Lewis

  Mother, Struggle, Writing

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• My parents love it! They're on set. They make cameos in the movie. My father is a psycho-analyst and a professor at Harvard and he told me how many of the other professors at Harvard have gone and seen it. They love 'Hostel' and they love the thought behind it.

  Eli Roth

  Father, Parent, Gone

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There's a lot of people talking about elitism and all of that.Yes, I went to Princeton and Harvard, but the lens through which I see the world is the lens that I grew up with. I am the product of a working class upbringing.

  Barack Obama

  Talking, Class, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• A lot of writers come from Harvard and such, and are rich, and they write under the misapprehension that poor people are stupid. So when they do write them, they are hillbillies or rednecks or Christian idiots.

  Norm MacDonald

  Christian, Stupid, Writing

  "Norm MacDonald Has No Problem Paying O.J. Simpson Under the Table". Interview with Abram Sauer, www.esquire.com. April 12, 2011.

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• Teacher: "If your daughter knew her spelling words as well as her Bible stories she'd get into Harvard." Me: "I'll settle for Heaven."

  Mark Hart

  Daughter, Teacher, Heaven

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• The motto of Harvard isn't 'nice,' it's truth. The motto of Yale isn't
  'light and nice,' it's light and truth.

  Scott Kenemore

  Nice, Light, Yale

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• I wonder more and more just where I may have come out if I had never seen Harvard Square.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Squares, May, Wonder

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• There are lots of excellent analysts out there. John Holdren at the Harvard Kennedy School, who was just president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has been talking about this stuff for years. There are lots of people out there who understand what’s going on. The problem is, they aren’t much picked up on Fox News.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  School, Talking, Years

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. November, 2008.

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• The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.

  Mo Ibrahim

  Teaching, School, People

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• At Harvard, the strong and savvy and confident thrived, while the nice or shy or quaintly moral were just bit players. In Ysleta, you believed in God because you were poor and needed something to hold on to. At Harvard, you believed in your good luck or bad luck, in all-nighters, in your political savvy.

  Sergio Troncoso

  Strong, Nice, Good Luck

  Sergio Troncoso (2011). “From This Wicked Patch of Dust”, p.97, University of Arizona Press

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• I spent a year in Professor Baker's famous class at Harvard. There, too, I learned some things that were useful to me-particularly what not to do. Not to take ten lines, for instance, to say something that can be said in one line.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Years, Class, Bakers

  Eugene O'Neill, Mark W. Estrin (1990). “Conversations with Eugene O'Neill”, p.32, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You could be disqualified for a job [at Harvard] if you were either smart or Jewish or Keynesian. So what chance did this smart, Jewish, Keynesian have?

  Paul Samuelson

  Jobs, Smart, Chance

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• If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College] or Cambridge [Harvard College]. The latter will return them to us as fanatics and tories, the former will keep them to add to their population.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Children, College, Kentucky

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• You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that. Polaroid did that for some years, but eventually Dr. Land, one of those brilliant troublemakers, was asked to leave his own company - which is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of.

  Steve Jobs

  Art, Years, Land

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help.

  Jeremy Lin

  Nba, Trying, Degrees

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• Three years in jail is a good corrective for three years at Harvard.

  Alger Hiss

  Years, Jail, Three

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• The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the Harvard faculty than there are in Eastern Europe.

  George Will

  Years, Europe, Unions

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• 9/11 was my first day teaching at Harvard University. My classes were all canceled and I got back to town two days later. I'm one of those people who doesn't think the world has changed any at all since 9/11. It just seemed to be almost inevitable, something like that. That's one of the reasons why the backstory of Fay Grim goes all the way back into the '80s. I was trying to sketch out the continuity of all this hanky-panky between the security agencies of the world.

  Hal Hartley

  Teaching, Thinking, Agency

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• I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College.

  Samuel Parris

  Book, College, Arms

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• One of the ways to be happy, to be truly happy, is to contribute to a cause that is greater than yourself. And, through Harvard-based research, we can see that happy people live longer.

  Sheryl WuDunn

  People, Research, Way

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• It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference "the president" refers to the president of Harvard and not to a minor official in Washington.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Boston, President, Realizing

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• I get flack for saying [when I visit a college and give a speech], "This is a nice college, but the really great educator is McDonald's." They hate me for saying this and think I'm a slimy creature. But McDonald's hires people with bad work habits, trains them, and teaches them to come to work on time and have good work habits. I think a lot of what goes on there is better than at Harvard.

  Charlie Munger

  Nice, Hate, College

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